Sights in Municipality Shoumen

The Monastery of "Benedictine Sisters of Tuttsing" is the only active Catholic monastery in northeastern Bulgaria. It is situated in the village of Tsarev brod and is a part of the Catholic Diocese of Nikopol. The Catholicism is not the main religion in Bulgaria, and the presence of the...

The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque (more commonly known as the Tombul Mosque) in town of Shumen is the largest mosque in Bulgaria (just before the mosque in town of Razgrad) and second on the Balkans. It was built between 1740 and 1744 in the central for the that time part - nowadays south-western part ...